Dennis Garcia and Darren McCain are back with their latest podcast. Hardware Asylum Episodes 84 offers a look at the Zotac GTX 1070Ti Amp Extreme and the latest updates to Battlefield from EA. Here are the show notes:

ZOTAC GTX 1070 Ti AMP Extreme - There are very few video card makers that actually spend the time to build a custom video card. Custom is a pretty broad statement because any changes from a reference design are considered custom however there is custom and then there is CUSTOM and the later is what we are talking about here. The Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AMP Extreme is a GTX 1070 Ti based video card that has been specially designed for overclocking similar to what EVGA has done with the Classified and Kingpin editions. They feature a over engineered PCB and swap components out for better performance.

New Maps for Battlefield 1 - Everyone knows that the new model for games is to sell the base model and once the players are hooked release new content as tasty DLCs. One of the most popular options is maps that either give you another look into the same game or allows the game designers to include new effects, new gameplay and even new weapons and vehicles.

While paying for DLC is a sore spot with most gamers there is an underlying fruit that can give the general public a taste of what the game studio is doing. For instance a slowing of DLC development might indicate a dwindling in game popularity because there is nothing worse than dumping money into a game that nobody likes. On the other hand a sudden increase in DLC content or a larger DLC release might indicate that the game company is rewarding its players or is bundling all of their remaining releases into a single pack because something big is coming.